O-o-o-o! Tony Loses Nicky
Sarkozy ‘non’ To Blair Presidency …
Nicolas Sarkozy has withdrawn his backing of Tony Blair to become the first president of the European Union, senior sources have told the BBC.
The French president is understood to have changed his mind after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
It is thought he feels EU opposition to the former UK prime minister is too strong because he backed the Iraq war.
The president will be chosen by leaders of EU member states. The post was created under the new EU reform treaty,
The sources close to the president also indicated that Mr Sarkozy felt Mr Blair was not right for the role because Britain has failed to adopt the European single currency and the Schengen zone of passport-free travel.
Instead, the sources say the top job could go to the current president of the commission, Jose Manuel Baroso, or the prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker.
BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell however said the British government has a distaste for Mr Juncker, who is seen as far too keen on more European integration, and British prime minister Gordon Brown would probably veto him.
He added that some of the smart money was moving to the Danish prime minister Anders Rasmussen.
The new president is to chair EU summits, take on some of the functions of the current presidency of the Council of the European Union - held on a rotating six-month basis by EU heads of government - and represent the EU on common foreign and security policy.
(BBC)
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well, who said that the women had no influence in policy ?
Sarko is pragmatic, the german partnership is more priceful than the brit play-boy vagabondage
May 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pmHow did I know you’d chime in on this??
May 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pmDon’t want to piss the EUrostan IslamicNazi bastards off do we.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pmDrill, because I know that you love me, despite all our bickerings
May 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pmAccording to the Bible, the Antichrist will come out of the revived Roman Empire, which is the European Union today. I’m not saying that anyone today is necessarily the one, but the Scripture is clear that it will happen someday.
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary; and its End shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined” (Daniel 9:25-26).
“The people..shall destroy the city” refers to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by the Roman army of Titus. “The prince that shall come” refers to the Antichrist.
Most conservative theologians agree that the Antichrist of Revelation (the Beast) shall come out of the revived Roman Empire as its head, because the EU is centered in the very same Old Roman Empire territory that existed 2000 years ago (Italy, France, Germany, Britain, Belgium, etc). We are seeing the Bible fulfilled before our very eyes right now.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pmyeah, you said it it’s in the re-creative theology,
sorry, but my neanderthal mind can’t swallow the theologies that aren’t of my for-fathers
May 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm83D, go get your sum fried freedom chicken, a bastard tell ya
May 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pm